Versions of the package geokit-rails before 2.5.0 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to unsafe deserialisation of YAML within the 'geo_location' cookie. This issue can be exploited remotely via a malicious cookie value. **Note:** An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute commands on the host system.
The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-GEOKITRAILS-5920323 | exploit third party advisory patch |
| https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/b7aa1c2e71c8d4386463ac14f686901d | third party advisory exploit |
| https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/blob/master/lib/geokit-rails/ip_geocode_lookup.rb%23L37 | broken link |
| https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/7ffc5813e57f6f417987043e1039925fd0865c43 | patch |
| https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/a93dfe49fb9aeae7164e2f8c4041450a04b5482f | patch |